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charlesoakwood

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« on: November 10, 2011, 10:25:54 PM »

At the link from Regneration this came up:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/drummk
The military’s taken plenty of big steps towards fortifying battlefields with robot armies. Now, they’re taking a giant leap.

One that’s twenty-four feet high, to be specific. That’s the elevation achieved by the tiny, jumping Sand Flea robot, which will for the first time be battle-tested in Afghanistan this coming winter.

Created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Boston Dynamics — the latter being the same renowned robotics shop that brought us AlphaDog and PETMAN — the Sand Flea was initially commissioned by Darpa, the Pentagon’s cutting-edge research arm, in 2009.

RAW: Robot can hop over HIGH fences

and I followed it here:

BigDog Evolution


AlphaDog Proto

DARPA is one of the govts best bangs for the buck.  Of course those crafty
military persons insert competition and freedom of action and $$ pay off to
the winner.  Very capitalistic some of these military guys.

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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2011, 10:52:01 PM »
I'm still waiting for combat exoskeletons to be perfected, I'd take out a second mortgage to get that...let the bank keep the house when the SHTF!
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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2011, 10:11:23 AM »
CO, that thing reminds me of AMIE, the robot in "Red Planet".
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2011, 10:24:13 AM »
Pretty snazzy stuff!  ;D
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